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Support an Artist While Spending Nothing

In: Career management, Opinion

One way to support an Artist is to buy art. If this isn't an option for you, there are costless ways to make a huge difference in an artist's career path. Any person who loves the art of an artist can make a huge difference.

Many people feel that supporting an artist beyond compliments and verbal encouragement is out of their reach if they don’t have money to buy artwork. While the best way to support an artist is to (buy art and) support their livelihood, here are a few things that are free, that make a huge difference to the artist you would like to support.

1. Share their work ~ Do you have a Facebook account? Twitter? StumbleUpon? Guess what - if you said yes, you also have a network outside of the reach of the artist you would like to help, and chances are your network and you share a lot of common

What? This is a Twitterscape?

In: Anecdotes, Career management, My Career

Did you know that the process of developing Twitterscapes yielded images that don't look like Twitterscapes? Neither did my printer, apparently.

Yesterday I sent 9 of the preliminary “Twitterscapes” off for printing for the upcoming exhibit. My printer called me three times out of what he called “confusion,“ though I read in it disbelief. My art printer (one of the best fine art printers in New Mexico,) who spends days at a time immersed in fine art, could not fathom why I wanted to print these, nor could he tell if I had sent him the correct images, or if I had just gone crazy. He may have thought he got a set of images that were corrupted.

Of course, the images I sent him don’t look like Twitterscapes, or fine art. They look

Marketing, newsletters, projects. Oh, my!

In: Career management, My Career, Self Reflection

2010 was terrific, but 2011 already has a distinction all its own.

And suddenly, as Eric Meyer eloquently put it on New Years Eve, we have passed yet another “arbitrary gregorian boundary condition.” Out with 2010, in with 2011. While I’m glad it’s over, 2010 was a revolutionary year; marriage, career independence, all in the span of two months and continuing now and into the future. God Almighty, I’m free at last.

And since 2011 is here, I shall declare that this year will not be about improvement, yearning, or gaining freedom as last year and years past have been. This year is about engagement. It’s about full-throttling on connecting with

ExpressionEngine and how I ranted for 1 hour about it

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

I am not always a superb public speaker or anxious to give away my "professional secrets," but ExpressionEngine deserves an exception. It deserves an introduction, an explanation, and time for questions like so:

On September 1, 2010 I gave a Webuquerque Presentation extolling the virtues of the content management systems I use, religiously, for client sites, ExpressionEngine. Using ExpressionEngine, I've never been able to say no to a client feature for any lack of the system's capability to handle the request, as it has enough built-in that its easy to add functionality on as a PHP programmer. Turns out I was giving a presentation to a group of hungry webbies who had been fed up with Content Management Systems of all walks mainly due to their 1) high barriers to entry and 2) their lack of support

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